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iOS 6's ‘Do Not Disturb’ Not Shutting Off Automatically on New Year's Day — iOS 6 users who use Apple's scheduled “Do Not Disturb” feature may find that their iPhone, iPad or iPod touch hasn't automatically disabled the feature on New Year's morning. — The issue was reported on Whirlpool forums as well as our own MacRumors forums.
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| Zach Honig / Engadget: |
Ubuntu teaser counts down to January 2nd launch, hints at touch-based OS — “So close, you can almost touch it.” The Ubuntu home page is currently dominated by a banner with that teaser, along with a clock counting down to 8AM ET on Wednesday, January 2nd.
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Sayonara, netbooks: Asus (and the rest) won't make any more in 2013 — A five-year lifespan turned out to be all that netbooks got. Acer and Asus are stopping manufacture from 1 January 2013 - ending what once looked like the future of computing — Sayonara, netbooks.| Nicholas Carlson / Business Insider: |
Google Is Attacking Apple From The Inside Out—And It's Working — After years of hammering away at Apple's share of the smartphone market with cheap-to-free Android phones, Google has lately adopted a new tactic to win mobile. — Call it “the worm strategy”—because Google is attacking Apple from the inside out.| Ryan Block / NYT Bits: |
Why I'm Quitting Instagram — The flap over Instagram's changing its terms of service has not died down even weeks after its announcement and subsequent partial reversal. People are still arguing whether Instagram's photographers will stay loyal to the service.
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| Janko Roettgers / GigaOM: |
Inside Intel's TV service: No CES announcement, but plenty of juicy details — Both Forbes and TechCrunch reported this past weekend that Intel may announce its much-rumored TV service at CES next week. I've been told by a knowledgeable source that this is inaccurate … | Devorah Lauter / Telegraph: |
Apple's Paris store hit by New Year's Eve raid — The Apple shop in Paris's Opera district was robbed by armed, masked men on New Year's Eve, under the noses of riot police patrolling the nearby Champs Elysées. — The Apple store in Paris — Reports claimed the thieves …
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| Nate Hoffelder / The Digital Reader: |
Apple to Launch iBookstore in Japan in January 2013 — The Nikkei reported today that Apple will be expanding their ebookstore soon. Some time in the near future, possibly as early as next month, Apple will start selling ebooks in Japan. They have reportedly already signed a number …
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Can a social graph last more than 10 years? — Hunter Walk wrote an excellent post the other day about whether one social graph can rule them all or not. Hunter is in the latter camp. And it's clear by our investments at Spark and my social mobile/web activity that I agree with him …
| Gabe Rivera / Techmeme News: |
Techmeme's biggest (i.e. tallest) stories of 2012 — Now that we've examined the year's trending terms, our final retrospectacular tour of 2012 examines the stories themselves. On Techmeme, the biggest stories usually become the tallest stories as different angles of reporting and analysis pile up … | Aaron Ricadela / Bloomberg: |
Hewlett-Packard Says It May Dispose of Units Not Meeting Targets — Hewlett-Packard Co. (HPQ) said it's evaluating the disposition of businesses that don't meet goals more than a year after Chief Executive Officer Meg Whitman said she didn't plan to spin off the personal-computer division.
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Reddit's impressive 2012 stats: 37 billion page views, 400 million uniques and 30 million posts — Reddit has announced that in 2012 it served an impressive 37 billion page views and 400 million unique visitors. Additionally, the company has shared that it saw 30 million posts …
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Defrag Tools: WPT - Command Line — Andrew Richards, Chad Beeder, and Larry Larsen continue walking you through the Windows Performance Toolkit (WPT).
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Love, Magic, & APIs — I will confess, I am old enough to remember my GeoCities page. Don't hate. It was amazing, it was... this transformative moment in which I took real, actual information, and transformed it into something visible and memorable.
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Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
Getting the most out of business analytics — One of the most prevalent uses of Hadoop architecture by enterprises is to create business intelligence and analytics tools that can be leveraged to identify areas …
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“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).
“Yammer sucks” — Not to be mean to Yammer, or anything — it's a very good tool for some use cases — but that's what a customer told me recently (and others feel the same way).Who's Hiring In Tech?
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